> From the poll thread I posted earlier: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98198-Usage-of-online-services-in-your-family > I got the feeling that most people didn't even want to consider having > multiple accounts for premium streaming services. All I can guess is that many have figured out a workaround that I haven't. I get the "This player is already registered to another user." message way too often and have to shuffle things around to get what I want.
> I'm less optimistic about having some kind of pool solution where you > can setup a pool of premium streaming accounts, for example three > Pandora accounts, and the system picks the first free account when > someone wants to stream Pandora music. I think such solution would > probably violate the user agreement some of the premium streaming > providers have and it will also result in that you loose all > personalization features the premium streaming provider offers you to > setup in their account. I'm not thinking of a pool, but independent inputs where the server just allows the user to pick the source. I'd pick streaming device 1, the kids would pick streaming device 2. A device associated with each account so I can't see how any terms of service could be violated. It wouldn't be much different than hooking up two streaming devices to an AV receiver with mutli zone capability. > None of this is of course a problem for premium streaming services that > allows multiple songs to be streamed simultaneously from the same > account, I'm not sure what kind of restrictions Pandora have in this > regard. Pandora doesn't have this capability. As far as I know, only Rdio and Rhapsody have services that allow family plans. I'm not real clear on what ickstream is, but I'm guessing it might be for people who want to have a unified view into their music no matter where they are. What I've been looking for is a way for distributed home audio to be dirt cheap, support streaming music in a usable way, and be controlled by something as elegant as ipeng. I'd like to move towards something similar to the attached block diagram, I think. Good luck with your product. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: diagram.pdf | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15075| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mweb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
